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Featured image courtesy Amantha Perera/IPS [Editor’s note: This is an edited transcript of a speech delivered at a conference organized by the East-West Centre to a cohort of journalists from India and…

Photo courtesy Official Website of the President of Sri Lanka Ten years surviving a tempestuous period of contemporary Sri Lankan political, economic and social change, as an English language electronic platform introducing…

Featured image courtesy the BBC In the 1950s, Cuban revolutionaries launched their July 26 Movement (Movement) to get rid of foreign domination and economic injustice. In 1952, Fulgencio Batista launched a coup…

Featured image courtesy Colombo Telegraph No century in recorded history has experienced so many social transformations and such radical ones as the twentieth century (Peter, 2016). Over this period, without any exception…

All photos courtesy Amalini de Sayrah In the post-conflict narrative, there are stories that are glossed over, or never told. November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against…

Featured image courtesy Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai From conference on “Caste, Social Justice and Democracy in Sri Lanka”, held on the 19th and 20th November 2016) There is a wealth of anecdotal evidence of the wide…

Photograph courtesy Fox News ### Dear Mr. Jayasundara, Attached herewith, is a follow-up Complaint to you, signed by 5000+ people from Sri Lanka, regarding the inaction of the police against extremist groups,…

Photograph courtesy Al Jazeera Today the desire for justice is multitudinous. This is to say that struggles against injustice, struggles for survival, for self-respect, for human rights, should never be considered merely…

Featured image courtesy Sri Lanka Guardian A particular segment of the country was decisively committed to defeat the Rajapaksa regime and replace it with the present regime of Good Governance. This segment…

Featured image courtesy Rukshan Abeywansha/The Nation Mixed feelings prevail in the wake of Budget 2017 being presented in Parliament. Overall, the Budget was fairly holistic in coverage, being broadly linked to Prime Minister…